20th September 2009 Archive

The shift by Intel to the QuickPath Interconnect architecture with its Nehalem family of Xeon processors is paying off big time for ScaleMP. The high-end virtualization specialist is peddling a program called vSMP Foundation to mesh rack servers into a virtual symmetric multiprocessor for supercomputing workloads.

Yahoo! has combined OpenID instant log-ins with OAuth data swapping. In other words, after logging in to a third party web site with your Yahoo! account, you can now swap profile data, contacts, and other info between the two.